Open Hiring

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Open hiring at Drupal

Chad Whitacre, on how Drupal used open hiring in the context of Gratipay payments:

Drupal is a mature open source project that a non-profit organization, called the Drupal Association, steers. The project's use of Gratipay was a skunkworks initiative by two core contributors, who intended to eventually hand the reins to the Association. These two contributors defined criteria for adding and removing others from revenue sharing on Gratipay, and then they recruited fellow Drupal community members to the pilot program. Roughly 200 people were eligible to participate.

Like most successful open source projects, Drupal already has clearly documented onboarding procedures. Anyone may start contributing to the project, without asking permission or going through a hiring process first. From there, establishing criteria for someone's work to grant them revenue-sharing privileges is a natural step.

In effect, the Drupal core team on Gratipay made it possible for people to "hire themselves" by voluntarily performing the work specified in their criteria.

All told, Drupal distributed about $13,000 to 22 people over the course of one year (that's about 10 percent of those eligible)." (https://opensource.com/open-organization/16/5/employees-let-them-hire-themselves)